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A Revolutionary Struggle-era boat is being painstakingly rebuilt after centuries buried beneath Manhattan

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A Revolutionary Struggle-era boat is being painstakingly rebuilt after centuries buried beneath Manhattan

ALBANY, N.Y. — Workers digging at Manhattan’s World Trade Center site 15 years ago made an improbable discovery: sodden timbers from a boat built during the Revolutionary War that had been buried more than two centuries earlier. Now, over 600 pieces from the 50-foot vessel are being painstakingly put back together at the New York … Read more

Zambian ex-president will likely be buried in South Africa, household says

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Zambian ex-president will likely be buried in South Africa, household says

The family of Zambia’s former President Edgar Lungu says he will be buried in South Africa in a private ceremony following a row with the government over the funeral arrangements. Late on Thursday, President Hakainde Hichilema cut short a period of national mourning after Lungu’s family refused to allow his body to be repatriated from … Read more